Let's See Your Night Shots, More Than Just Trains, They Should Tell A story.

Wonder if anybody has created a model photo replicating the famous N&W night shots?  Dunno if the 4-8-0 prototype, as at Strasburg, was in any of those historical ones?  That drugstore kit has appeared on the bay,  and can be found.  Poor pump jockey, out in the rain,  checking tires.  "Service" station now a misnomer, and that is a "you-get-wet" project...but there was? one state that did not allow DIY.  Still?

 By rail or bus.

scale rail posted:

I think night shots are very interesting. They have so much more interest and even mystery. A good one is not easy. Flash photography just won't work for a good night photo. This drug store shot was exposed for over a minute. I used a tiny flashlight that I moved slowly for the reflection on the wet street from the cars headlights. Same for the detail of the water tank on the right. It was set up to make you wonder why was that girl in the white shirt out this late? What was the guy sitting on the Coke machine thinking when he watched her go by? Every shot should have some kind of story. All the rest of the light is natural from the buildings. The drugstore is an old Berkshire Valley kit. Not make anymore. Click on pic to enlarge. Don

Fabulous photo, Don.

Midnight Shift'

scale rail posted:

I think night shots are very interesting. They have so much more interest and even mystery. A good one is not easy. Flash photography just won't work for a good night photo. This drug store shot was exposed for over a minute. I used a tiny flashlight that I moved slowly for the reflection on the wet street from the cars headlights. Same for the detail of the water tank on the right. It was set up to make you wonder why was that girl in the white shirt out this late? What was the guy sitting on the Coke machine thinking when he watched her go by? Every shot should have some kind of story. All the rest of the light is natural from the buildings. The drugstore is an old Berkshire Valley kit. Not make anymore. Click on pic to enlarge. Don

Very nice!

It's unbelievable how many multi-talented photographers/modelers, Like Don, Erik and Johan we have here on the forum.

One of my favorites from my team track terminal

I like the viewer to imagine or decide what is being conveyed in my model photographs...

Quarter Gauger - I like that diner shot!

Some creative modeling, all!, and theme, story told, is met.

Pete

Some real awesome scenes here! I will try and give it a shot here.

Norton posted:

Pete

I'm glad I enlarged the scene inside the building in your photo, Pete. Very cool seeing figures playing pool through the window. Arnold 

Live night action'.. A local meets and holds for an Express...

Very cool shot. Can you re-post it again so it comes up with still from the video? Don

scale rail posted:

Very cool shot. Can you re-post it again so it comes up with still from the video? Don

Sure, not sure how to do that though???

Just hit the little icon that looks like a frame of film and put your the same address you posted in the source section, then hit OK. Don

I have a simple rule when looking at paintings, or prints or layouts...."Do I want to be in it?"  If so, it's something I like very much.  QUARTER GAUGER 48, not only do i want to stroll around your layout, it reminds me of Cleveland where I grew up.  The composition and lighting are so very lifelike....stunning.

Ed, thank you that was very nice, but would want to walk around this part of the layout? Don

scale rail posted:

Ed, thank you that was very nice, but would want to walk around this part of the layout? Don

Scale Rail, are you kidding, that's my kinda place!  The tombstones tell stories. Very interesting stories at that.  

The video looks clear and sharp when I hit your Youtube address. https://youtu.be/JNS91ldYGQ0.   Just take this address and place on the icon under formats at the top of the "Add Reply" list. That little icon that looks like a frame of film. Put it in the area that says source. Don

scale rail posted:

The video looks clear and sharp when I hit your Youtube address.   Just take this address and place on the icon under formats at the top of the "Add Reply" list. That little icon that looks like a frame of film. Put it in the area that says source. Don

So, that's how you do that'... I've been trying to figure that out for a very long time'..

What does the other icon next to this one do????  

The one on the left is for adding photos. I use "add attachments" on the lower right to add photos. I just put the picture on my desk top and hit the add attachments and all your photos on the desk top come up. Then I simply hit the photo you want on the list. Don

ToledoEd posted:

I have a simple rule when looking at paintings, or prints or layouts...."Do I want to be in it?"  If so, it's something I like very much.  QUARTER GAUGER 48, not only do i want to stroll around your layout, it reminds me of Cleveland where I grew up.  The composition and lighting are so very lifelike....stunning.

Thank you so very much Ed, I think that is the very best compliment I have ever received  from a fellow viewer and modeler'.  You are too kind'.. I t is appreciated very much'..

                           SeanG, here is another shot of the diner for you'.

The ford facing out'

Here are a couple shots of my refinery at night.  I really like nightime shots at refilneries, they are a light show in themselves.

A young couple ecstatically purchasing their first birdhouse, .

while a woman comes down the stairs on the way to....or the way from...

He was supposed to be meeting ME!

There are a million stories in the Naked City, this is one of them...

While I enjoy night-time train watching, I found there has to be enough ambient light otherwise you can't see the train action. As an example, at the end of this short video, you'll hear a "clunk" lol, where my trains collided on the crossover - although that was more due to me not paying attention!

Short video of my downtown with "Streets." I have to do a more comprehensive video showing the "Streets" intersection with the trolley and street cars as well as my underground station.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLnNRjsFXhg

Got this photo out of my 2015 vault to post on this thread. 

This is a night time line-up of Amtrak Amfleets and New York MTA M7's at the Sunnyside Yards in Queens (aka the indoor/outdoor carpet on my Living Room floor) getting cleaned and serviced overnight before the next day's rush. 

John, were did you get the shelves for the Hardware Store? Looks great. Don

scale rail posted:

John, were did you get the shelves for the Hardware Store? Looks great. Don

Don, is it an image placed behind the window display?

Last train of the night is arriving.

Night work in the tunnel.

Mike McCutcheon posted:

Last train of the night is arriving.

Night work in the tunnel.

As a fellow Lego fan, I really like your train station!

BobbyD posted:

scale rail posted:

John, were did you get the shelves for the Hardware Store? Looks great. Don

Don, is it an image placed behind the window display?

Scale Rail,

Bobby D is correct, that it is an image. But its a bit more than that. I took a lot of interior photos of the real Ayres Variety store (the store has been in my hometown since 1946), then photo shopped them together to look like aisles as well as to get the proper perspective when placed in a semicircular strip.  The desk, birdhouse, people at the cash register and all the window displays are real.  Here is a top view of the first floor

The woman coming down the stairs is underneath that web of wires behind the first window on the left.

Here is what the strip looks like.

It has been heavily photo shopped: each aisle and end cap is a separate photo, distorted to get the perspective right, the flags have been modified, the lights angled inward, etc

For the upper floors I took a more conventional approach:

Real neat photos everyone.  You guys have some real artistic talent,

Bill

It's  the first night of the Terrific Tucker Sale at the Smith Brothers  Tucker Dealership in Patsburg. 

Standing outside the dealership, Preston Tucker takes his hat off to admirers of his fine automobiles. Inside the showroom standing next to the yellow Torpedo, a  salesman and customer closes a deal.  The salesman tells the customer " for purchasing one of the finest automobiles ever made  I will also through in with the this purchase a case of Smith Brother Cough Drops!"